[Sammy67]

New York has 200,000 employees and he is only going to cut 500 jobs through attrition, He’s insane!

[xcamel]

When he announced it, it was like setting off a long string of Chinese firecrackers inside a giant infant nursery. The screaming and wailing was unimaginable (starting with the unions)

[skully]

New York has 200,000 employees and he is only going to cut 500 jobs through attrition,

Actually the total number of jobs being cut will be about 3100, through combined attrition and layoffs. The 500 figure will be actual layoffs. The NYS work force is an aged workforce, with about 30% of it within 10 years of retirement. I would expect NYS will trim this force down further, by attrition as many of these workers retire over the next several years. Public Employee layoffs in NY state are very unpopular among the unions. Seeing as Public employee unions are one of the Rat's biggest contributors, keeping the number of “layoffs” down was a bone thrown to the unions, to offset some concessions the state is asking the unions to give up; next years pay raise and a 5 day pay lag are a couple of them. Patterson will have a harder time with is own party getting the bulk of this budget passed, then with the RINOS(there are no real Repubs in NY goberment).